Regulatory
The U.K. National Institute for Health and Care Excellence on Thursday recommended against funding Vertex Pharmaceuticals’ CRISPR-based sickle cell disease therapy Casgevy unless uncertainties can be cleared up.
With an advisory committee meeting slated for Friday, the regulator has posted briefing documents in which it has raised concerns about early deaths in patients treated with Bristol Myers Squibb’s Abecma and Johnson & Johnson’s Carvykti.
The FDA will close out a hectic month of March with a flurry of target action dates, including ones for lymphoma and CKD anemia treatments.
In a briefing document for Thursday’s advisory committee meeting, the FDA pointed to efficacy and safety issues with Geron’s New Drug Application for imetelstat in myelodysplastic syndromes.
The FDA plans to convene an advisory committee meeting to discuss the safety profile and efficacy of Eli Lilly’s Alzheimer’s candidate, the company announced Friday.
The regulator’s new draft guidance, released on Monday, provides additional details regarding the use of surrogate and biomarker endpoints to support accelerated approvals.
Acadia Pharmaceuticals is terminating development of its antipsychotic drug pimavanserin, which did not demonstrate a statistically significant improvement over placebo in the late-stage study’s primary endpoint.
With Monday’s FDA rejection of their long-acting glatiramer acetate formulation, Viatris and Mapi Pharma continue the biopharma industry’s recent losing streak in multiple sclerosis.
MindMed’s stock price jumped over 50% Thursday as its LSD-based candidate for generalized anxiety disorder got a breakthrough therapy designation from the FDA.
BMS and J&J will meet with the Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee Friday to discuss their CAR-T therapies Abecma and Carvykti as the companies seek their approval as earlier lines of treatment.
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